title: [Everyday medical practice and Balint groups].
abstract: Comprehensive scientific medical knowledge reveals limitations, where we are not able to define diseases satisfactorily or we can't use diagnostic categories because factors other than rational scientific ones are involved. The physician may thus be asked to pursue a patient-oriented rather than a disease-oriented approach. The odyssey illustrates some of the difficulties the physician may encounter on this path. An aid to orientation is the Balint group, whose goal is to broaden the diagnostic and therapeutic competence of the practitioner by opening also a psychic access to disease in addition to the predominantly somatic approach and leading thus to an integral psychosomatic point of view. Finally, development of the Balint group and its function and place within today's medicine are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: FMH Psychiatrie/Psychotherapie, Luzern.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rohr-Rast
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D009229:Mythology; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Arztlicher Alltag und die Balint-Gruppe.